Just wondering if anyone out there knows if a common PQ can be run through consecutive gsak filters to make a common list of caches for a group.
In other words, can I run a PQ that eliminates any finds in the PQ area then send that to a fellow cacher to filter out his previous finds in the area and so on. The hope is that after everyone in the group has cleared their finds the remaining PQ would hold common unfound caches for all involved. The last one to filter the list could then redistribute that list and everyone would be on the same page of unfound caches.
I have GSAK but don't know if this is an available feature.
Thanks for any help you may be able to share.
DaBloodhound

What I usually do is have everybody send me their "My Finds" PQ. Then I load one of the PQ's using the "Set user flag", "If matched, ONLY update user flag", and "Clear all user flags first" boxes checked. Then I load the other PQ's using the same boxes checked except for "Clear all user flags first". Now if I set a filter to look only at my unfound caches with the user flag clear, those caches are unfound by everyone.

Now this might work, I haven't tried it: have everybody do the same PQ and send it to you. Then clear all user flags and load one of the PQ's, and then set the user flag for all found caches (use a filter to select only found caches and then User Flags->Set for Filter Only). Do the same for all the other PQ's including yours. Then filter on caches with the user flag unset.

Translation: Start with a PQ of the entire area. Merge the 'found' cache lists from each cacher on the hunt. Discard anything that appears on the list more than once. Obviously, if the PQs aren't for exactly the same area/cache type, additional filtering may be needed.

In other words, can I run a PQ that eliminates any finds in the PQ area then send that to a fellow cacher to filter out his previous finds in the area and so on.

If you received a copy of those other cachers "all finds" gpx and import it into you GSAK database, then you can filter out caches that you and they have found. The GSAK help topic "Log Filter Examples" or "Filter: Log examples" shows how to do this.

What I usually do is have everybody send me their "My Finds" PQ. Then I load one of the PQ's using the "Set user flag", "If matched, ONLY update user flag", and "Clear all user flags first" boxes checked. Then I load the other PQ's using the same boxes checked except for "Clear all user flags first". Now if I set a filter to look only at my unfound caches with the user flag clear, those caches are unfound by everyone.

I use GSAK for this in the set filter, in the logs tab, run a "log" filter:

Logs to search "all"
include/exclude "exclude"
logged by "enter cacher name or id number" if using name it has to be exact, so I use id number.

Then run any other filters i.e. specific diff / terr , distance, cache types, cache sizes, what ever you want to hunt up... export to gps, or mapsoure or what ever, and email that gpx file to the other cachers and you should have only unfound caches for all on the list and be good to go...

I use GSAK for this in the set filter, in the logs tab, run a "log" filter:

Logs to search "all"
include/exclude "exclude"
logged by "enter cacher name or id number" if using name it has to be exact, so I use id number.

Then run any other filters i.e. specific diff / terr , distance, cache types, cache sizes, what ever you want to hunt up... export to gps, or mapsoure or what ever, and email that gpx file to the other cachers and you should have only unfound caches for all on the list and be good to go...

Have fun

When you pull a PQ it only pulls the last 4 (or is it 5?) logs from a cache. If the cache was hit with more logs than that since the last time you pulled the PQ then you'll miss out on some of the logs (for example, if WNC hits a cache then you'll miss some of the logs from that)._________________Hmm...

When you pull a PQ it only pulls the last 4 (or is it 5?) logs from a cache. If the cache was hit with more logs than that since the last time you pulled the PQ then you'll miss out on some of the logs (for example, if WNC hits a cache then you'll miss some of the logs from that).

That still works, granted that you get the "all finds" gpx from the people you want to filter on as it would contain all their find logs.

When you pull a PQ it only pulls the last 4 (or is it 5?) logs from a cache. If the cache was hit with more logs than that since the last time you pulled the PQ then you'll miss out on some of the logs (for example, if WNC hits a cache then you'll miss some of the logs from that).

That still works, granted that you get the "all finds" gpx from the people you want to filter on as it would contain all their find logs.

-Jonas

Yes. I guess my point was that no matter how you do it you need everyone's 'my finds' query as the regular PQs don't necessarily provide all of the required information._________________Hmm...